We filmed Bring Me The Horizon taking to the stage to tear up Reading Festival

Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes has recalled how the band went from having ‘bananas and gravel’ thrown at them at Reading & Leeds, to being one of highlights of this year’s festival.

Watch our ‘Walk On Stage’ video with the band above

Last month saw the band follow weeks of rumour by storming back to the scene with a secret set to launch new single ‘Mantra‘ ahead of new album ‘Amo‘. It also marked a decade since their first ever appearance.

“It’s 10 years today since we played it for the first time,” frontman Oli Sykes told NME. “It’s come a long way for us since then, when we were opening on the main stage. I think Slipknot pulled out or something and we filled in. It was horrific. We literally got camera phones, bananas, gravel, ketchup thrown at us. It was madness.”

While they’ve certainly paid their dues now, that did little to damped the band’s nerves…

“I was really nervous,” Sykes continued. “I wasn’t before. Going on you’re like ‘Yeah, I’ll be fine’. It’s just getting on stage and getting used to all the adrenaline. We’d been rehearsing all week and it was sound, then you get on stage and it’s ten times faster than it feels.”